"Sun Solution for the Public Sector: Maximizing the Value of Stimulus Fund Investments" is a white paper that surveys the Sun solutions eligible for the the $787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), which has allocated funds to state and local governments, particularly in the areas of municipal, educational, and healthcare projects.
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The release of OpenSPARC T1 version 1.7 is announced in the weblog of Durgam Vahia, Engineering and Partnership Development Manager in the OpenSPARC group at Sun, who writes, "... with this release, [the] community can port a truly multi-core, multi-thread 64-bit commercial processor design on FPGAs." A download of OpenSPARC T2 is also now available. He adds that OpenSPARC now supports two different FPGA boards of different capacities.
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This article shows how to set up Logical Domains (LDoms) and LDoms Manager 1.0.3 on UltraSPARC T1 or UltraSPARC T2 processor-based systems. The procedure has been tested on the Solaris 10 5/08 Operating System.

A member of the BigAdmin community offers this tech tip as one of the many useful things that can be done with ZFS in the Solaris 10 OS. Here, he shows how to create a cheap disk-based backup with versioning using ZFS and rsync.
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